Sandra Parsons for the Daily Mail's recent articles

Today’s young woman has a wider selection of men from whom to choose — but if she isn’t lucky enough to find her Mr Darcy at university or the office, she’s increasingly unlikely to meet him at all. So more and more women are turning to the internet to find a partner — and, according to new research by psychologists at Chicago University, once they find him, they’re much more likely to have a happy marriage than if they’d met at a party or in a bar.
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With tens of thousands of people having to wait up to a staggering ten days to see their local GP, emergency doctors — highly trained professionals who know how to save your life when you’re having a heart attack or have been in a horrific road accident — are now finding themselves treating things such as minor cuts and chest infections. At night, their departments fill up with children brought in by anxious parents. It’s not hard to work out why. They know their GP won’t come out to see them, so who can blame them?
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SANDRA PARSONS: I suspect that, deep down, Christine Bicknell did know her boyfriend wasn’t a safe companion. She knew he had twice been jailed, once for dealing cocaine and once for taking a machete into a pub from which he’d been barred for violent behaviour. So when Christine says there were no clues she was living with a monster, I have to disagree. The clues were there all right that he was, at the very least, an unstable and unsuitable influence for a young girl — she simply chose to overlook them.
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